Buffalo Bills because remember
after the loss to the Bengals on Sundays to Van Dyck star
receiver made a quick exit from the locker room during
the game. He was gesturing at Josh out, a couple of different
times. We broke
that down yesterday
and he's heard the blowback. He's seen the criticism
yesterday on Twitter. Want me to be okay with losing.
Nah, and he had another tweet. You want me to be okay with our
level of play when it's not up to standard. Nah,
last one, it's easy to criticize. Sighs
my reaction more
than the result. Hey,
look more power to you Stefon, Diggs, make your case, make it
known.
It kind of underscores. What we were talking about earlier in
the show though
at what point does ownership say we got have a better team.
We had to do a better job. We got a guy in Stefon Diggs, who
is out there leaving it all on the field. We got Josh Allen
who's one of the best in the game. What else do we really
have?
What else do we need to get to where we want to be, and digs
cares digs wants to win. It's not just, I want the ball Diggs
wants to win, and he presumably believed especially after two
years ago and got to the
AFC Championship
then at least be back there if not to a Super Bowl by now.
Yeah, I mean, I get it, you know, one.
Hey you said it right? First off it's hard in these kind of
games because nobody else to worry, about in Buffalo, right?
At Jamar, Chase gets a lot of good looks because you can't
you
You can't always compromise.
You know, Jamar Chase covered because you got oh no, then T,
Higgins, a mismatch and there's Tyler Boyd, that's the issue.
They have up there in Buffalo
and you like you said it right to Mike,
he loves football.
He's Ultra passionate his hearts in the right place.
Yeah. Is this being a little bit of a pain in the butt on
the sidelines? Sure. Okay. But I'd rather - receiver be like
that then like just sitting on the,
you know, side of the sideline somewhere being quiet and
pouting. Whatever it's a way receivers are and as we've
discussed before
receivers of the freakiest athletes on the planet, and my
opinion is the best athlete on the planet. When you talk about
overall speed, explosion acceleration, and then they
have hand, I to go along with it.
Most of them are great. At baseball can shoot. Baskets
throw a football, whatever. So, they believe, wait, give me
the damn ball and we'll win the game. I, my whole life when
I get the ball, good things happen.
So that's your part of it.
He's frustrated. I
Understand that. And this was a team that was on a mission was
thinking, Super Bowl, Super Bowl, Super Bowl, that's all
they thought about this year. So he's disappointed
but yeah, they need to help him out by giving the better
Supporting Cast and I understand his frustrations.
I don't think he's crossed the line here of being like to Diva
or pain in the ass or anything like that.
It really was jarring though to see him making those gestures
toward Josh, Allen who just sat there and ignored it, because
some quarterbacks would not react in that moment per se.
But
you've touched a nerve potentially and Josh Allen's,
huh? He's a big guy,
I don't know that. I want to get him mad at me if I was to
fall in digs, there's a limit that I'm going to that, I'm
going to avoid reaching when it comes to Josh Alan. But I think
that's an issue and that's a problem. And
they knew when they when they To form three years ago,
they knew he had the propensity
to get from time to time, upset with the way things were girls.
Why wanted out of Minnesota. He wasn't happy with the way
things are going. And as I said, yesterday, anytime you
acquire, a player
who wanted out of his last team, for some specific reason
that same reason could arise eventually for you, and he may
want out of your team. I think that's premature, but it's
something to watch
going. What receiver doesn't do it right, Michael little. Like
what does it? I mean we see Justin Jefferson. CD cam
Metcalf, we know taught to reek. He'll we've had Davante
Adams. I mean, you can go through its part of
the receiver.
If I had a dollar for every time a receiver told me, he was
open during a football game. I mean, come on, right. I used to
sit next to a receiver and a team meeting. We watch the film
the next day and I go oh here's the play. He was about to tell
me. He was wide open. I watch the play and we look
at each other and go. You mean the play where you were
quintuple covered? That was the by you told me. Are you trying
to get me fired or lose my job? Or what? So
that's where you also gotta
take it with a grain of salt to these are emotional, guys.
I also think though it comes back to the overall leadership
of the quarterback does the receiver feel comfortable
articulating, it openly like that. I think in some
situations
the receiver knows damn well
to not do anything like that in public and in private, if
you're going to start that, you're going to get it right
back at you and you're going to hear that. Come on. Let's I can
see. I can see somebody don't have to Peyton Manning.
Could you imagine
if Reggie Wayne or Marvin Harrison and done that to
Peyton? Manning back in the day and if you do it privately,
Peyton Manning is going to take you into the room right then
and there. And they're going to
break down the film. And he's going to show you why you
weren't open on that. Play that you've thyra. We're not going
to wait for the regular team meeting. We're doing it right
now. We're doing right now. You think you're open?
We got the film. We're going to look at it. You weren't don't
and don't do that again. I remember when
Dante, Culpepper was very early in his career with the Vikings
to have Randy Moss and Chris Carter and they would be rate
him on the sidelines. And they it's there's a point where
the quarterback is part of the gig is being the leader of
the team.
As to shut that down.
That's what's going to be interesting about this
going forward. Now
going forward next year when the bills in the Bengals, play
in Cincinnati, the schedule is already set. We just don't know
when it's going to be and what time of day, what day of
the week is it going to
assume it'll be a prime-time game?
Maybe the first game of the season at the Bengals, win
the Superbowl either way, Eli, Apple, Cincinnati cornerback.
He was having some fun
man. Yesterday at the expense of Stefon, Diggs
and Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bill This here's just one of
them. Someone get them in couples therapy.
Josh Allen and Stefon Diggs.
I'll pay on God.
And that's the clip of the gesturing that we saw. And
there's, there's more, there's more, there's more the and, and
see
there's a, there's a level where
Eli Apple was mocking, the Damar. Hamlin reaction like
this is the one that bothered me. I think that one crossed
the line Cancun on three with the heart gesture. That Tamar,
Hamlin uses,
I think, Eli Apple went too far with that.
The rest of it. Hey
you want to stir up The Hornet's Nest in advance. You
still got to play these guys next year and they're
definitely going to remember it now. He was going on and on and
on a clip of Josh Allen's to Van Dyck, shaking hands, and
yukking it up before the game,
they do this after the game. He'll I Apple said in a tweet
with that video again, there's like 15 or 20 of them where he
just keeps poking and poking and poking. There's a point
where if I'm one of his teammates I'm going to call my
mom and say, you got, you got to stop, you got to stop.
First of all, we got to worry about the Chiefs
and second of all, we are going to Pay the bills. Again, at
some point, there's a line. You don't want to cross there
and he kind of crossed it with both feet yesterday. Well,
it's a tough subject, you know again, hey, we just talked
about, you know, the guy here in the bottom of the screen,
right? He, he talks a lot, I'm sure he's saying a lot before
and during the game
that probably pisses Eli Apple off, or
somebody else. Sorry London. All right. But yeah,
so again, that's where we don't know.
Purpose. The other one that I know. Yeah.
I felt like we hadn't done it in a while so I wanted to do it
but but yeah, I think there's always that aspect that we got
to be careful. We don't judge, you know, who knows what Stefon
Diggs is saying to Eli Apple all game long and all that as
well. But yes,
it does seem like hey, the game's over and
gosh work 24 hours out and we're still piling on a little
bit. It went maybe a little overboard, you would think Eli?
Apple would be one that would like, not be like That
especially after
the way he got dragged on social media, after the Super
Bowl last year, or the way he was dragged when he was in
the New York Giants. You think he'd like have a little bit of
a soft place in his heart there. But
damn, he was going scorched Earth on the bills and stuff on
digs yesterday.
Oh, hey, been on a double move in the playoff game against
the Ravens and got dragged just a week and a half ago. I just
think there's a point where you gotta forget about the team,
you beat not, you focusing on the team. You're getting ready
to punish a person. The 24-hour rule, he violated the 24-hour
rule, he should have been thinking Chiefs Chiefs Chiefs
not digs digs did.